
Education
2011 — MS in Applied Math and Physics by MIPT
2012 — MS in Finance by HSE
2022 — Ph.D. by MIPT
Work Experience
2018-2022 — Head of OzonMasters Program at Ozon
Algorithm design for discrete optimization problems in Supply Chain and Logistics
2022-present — Head of educational programs at AI Institute MSU (AI Masters program)
2023-present — Academic director at Uzum IT Education
Consulting projects in dynamic pricing and algorithmic game theory for Aliexpress Russia
Teaching
2013 - working a.t.m. — Optimization course at MIPT 2015-2022 — Convex optimization course at HSE CS department 2016-working a.t.m. — Convex Analysis and Optimization course at YSDA
2019 - working a.t.m. — Optimization 1 course - AI Masters program (ex - OzonMasters) at MSU AI Institute
2020-2022 — Optimization 2 course [online optimization] — AI Masters program (ex - OzonMasters) at MSU AI Institute
2020-2021 — Optimization 3 course [optimization under uncertainty] — AI Masters program (ex - OzonMasters) at MSU AI Institute
Courses on discrete optimization, constraint programming, stochastic analysis, game theory
Research Interests
Convex optimization, discrete optimization, online optimization, optimization under uncertainty, algorithmic game theory
Awards and Recognitions
Публикации
Yuriy Dorn, Dmitrii Vishovan, Kirill Novoselov, Ilya Kuruzov, Darina Dvinskikh, Alexander Gasnikov. Beyond Aggregate Drift: Optimal Client-Specific Windows in Federated Learning (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.15543.
Yuriy Dorn, Osman Osmanov, Timofei Loginov, Nazarii Tupitsa, Darina Dvinskikh, Alexander Gasnikov. Adaptive two-points zero-order accelerated methods for stochastic convex optimization problems (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.15202.
Nhat Trung Nguyen, Ivan Dorofeev, Irina Podlipnova, Yuriy Dorn, Alexander Gasnikov. Complexity of Multiblock Convex-Concave Saddle-Point Problems with General Smooth Coupling (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.12656.
Kirill Novoselov, Yuriy Dorn, Darina Dvinskikh, Alexander Gasnikov. Optimal Rates for Federated Variational Inequalities under different relaxations of bounded variance assumption (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.12641.
Timofei Loginov, Darina Dvinskikh, Nazarii Tupitsa, Osman Osmanov, Yuriy Dorn, Alexander Gasnikov. Minimax Oracle Call Complexity, Rounds and Admissible Noise in Zeroth-Order Optimization of Highly Smooth Functions (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.05517.
Ilya Kuruzov, Dmitrii Vishovan, Kirill Novoselov, Yuriy Dorn, Darina Dvinskikh, Alexander Gasnikov. Asking the Crowd the Right Question: Bias-Cancelling Weights for Federated Learning (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.04671.
Yuriy Dorn, Darina Dvinskikh, Timofei Loginov, Osman Osmanov, Aleksandr Shestakov, Nazarii Tupitsa, Alexander Gasnikov. Lower Bounds For Gradient-Free Convex Optimization And Convex-Concave Saddle-Point Problems (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.00345.
Alexandra Suvorikova, Egor Gladin, Darina Dvinskikh, Artem Agafonov, Mohammad Alkousa, Yuriy Dorn, Vladislav Matyukhin, Alexander Gasnikov. Clipped or Unclipped? Finite-Sample Trade-offs for Averaged SGD under Heavy-Tailed Noise (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.32962.
Timofei Loginov, Alexander Gasnikov, Yuriy Dorn, Aleksandr Shestakov, Nazarii Tupitsa, Osman Osmanov, Darina Dvinskikh. The Complexity of Convex Optimization with Mismatched Geometry (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.32910.
Irina Podlipnova, Maxim Mashtaler, Artem Agafonov, Yuriy Dorn, Alexander Gasnikov. Smooth or Separable? Sparse Block Acceleration for Entropy-Regularized Linear Programs (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.32558.
2025
Ilgam Latypov, Alexandra Suvorikova, Alexey Kroshnin, Alexander Gasnikov, Yuriy Dorn. UCB-type Algorithm for Budget-Constrained Expert Learning (2025) arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22654
2024
Nikita Kornilov, Yuriy Dorn, Aleksandr Lobanov, Nikolay Kutuzov, Innokentiy Shibaev, Eduard Gorbunov, Alexander Gasnikov, Alexander Nazin. Median Clipping for Zeroth-order Non-Smooth Convex Optimization and Multi-Armed Bandit Problem with Heavy-tailed Symmetric Noise (2024)
Nikita Kornilov, Yuriy Dorn, Aleksandr Lobanov, Nikolay Kutuzov, Innokentiy Shibaev, Eduard Gorbunov, Alexander Gasnikov, Alexander Nazin. Zeroth-order median clipping for non-smooth convex optimization problems with heavy-tailed symmetric noise (2024)
Alexandra Suvorikova, Darina Dvinskikh, Yuriy Dorn, Alexander Gasnikov. When Momentum Helps Polyak--Ruppert Averaging (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.27990.